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| type | s |
| lex_filenum | 00 |
| def | difficult to penetrate |
| def | incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge |
| examples | the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them a deep metaphysical theory some recondite problem in historiography |
| Outgoing links | |
| Similar to | esoteric |
| Derivationally related form | recondite → reconditeness |
| Derivationally related form | abstruse → abstrusity; abstruse → abstruseness |
| Derivationally related form | abstruse → abstruseness |
| Incoming links | |
| Similar to | esoteric |
| Derived from adjective | abstrusely → abstruse |
| Derivationally related form | reconditeness → recondite |
| Derivationally related form | abstruseness → abstruse; abstrusity → abstruse |
| Derivationally related form | abstruseness → abstruse |
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